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3 days ago · He'd have do something semi-interesting in an actual above-average movie to determine this. ... He's one of the great movie dads in "Pretty in Pink," and, in tandem with Richard Farnsworth ...
2 days ago · Richard Farnsworth’s Net Worth. Richard Farnsworth, the esteemed actor known for his roles in films like “The Straight Story” and “The Grey Fox,” had accumulated a net worth of approximately $2 million at his passing. This financial standing reflects his successful career in both television and independent film.
1 day ago · Answer: Richard Farnsworth Buster was one in a long line of seemingly naive and simple, but actually smart and clever, small town sheriffs whom you have seen in many a film. Richard Farnsworth was a long time stunt man and occasional actor who would later be nominated for an Oscar for David Lynch's "The Straight Story".
4 days ago · Lynch then began work on a film from a script by Mary Sweeney and John E. Roach, The Straight Story, based on a true story: that of Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), an elderly man from Laurens, Iowa, who goes on a 300-mile journey to visit his sick brother (Harry Dean Stanton) in Mount Zion, Wisconsin, by riding lawnmower.
3 days ago · Stanton was renowned for his oddball performances in cult classics like “Repo Man” and “Wild at Heart,” but the man was capable of tremendous warmth and humanity. He’s one of the great movie dads in “Pretty in Pink,” and, in tandem with Richard Farnsworth, delivers a moment of uncommon grace at the end of “The Straight Story.”
23 hours ago · It was on this day in 1927 that the first successful television image was demonstrated, by the inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. Farnsworth was a Mormon farm boy from Utah, and he grew up in a log cabin. When the family moved to a house in Idaho, Farnsworth was amazed that the house had electricity — he had never seen it before. Read More
4 days ago · When Sergio Leone cast Clint Eastwood in his 1964 film, A Fistful of Dollars, he turned a television actor into a film star, and cooked up the so-called "Spaghetti Western".
